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Intel creates wireless technical center in Sweden By Jack McCarthy InfoWorld Electric Posted at 3:53 PM PT, Nov 12, 1999 Again showing a keen interest in the wireless communications market, Intel announced on Friday that it has established a technology research and development center in Stockholm. The Intel Wireless Competence Center will help the U.S. chip vendor and other companies develop applications involving high-bandwidth, wireless Internet access, according to a statement issued by Intel on Friday. The formation of the center is the latest of several steps the chip maker has taken towards further involvement in wireless communications. Intel announced its intention last month to purchase wireless chip set vendor DSP Communications, in Cupertino, Calif., for $1.6 billion. Last year, Intel, along with L.M. Ericsson Telephone, IBM, Nokia, and Toshiba, formed the Bluetooth initiative to develop wireless technology enabling high-speed connections between network devices using low-powered radio transmissions. Stockholm is a natural location for Intel's wireless Net center, Michael Sullivan, an Intel spokesman, said Friday. The Swedish city has been dubbed "Wireless Valley," due to the continuing pace of communications technology development there, he added. "We are starting to see higher bandwidth technology emerging and, frankly, a lot of the development is in that [the European] area of the world," Sullivan said. The U.S. chip maker currently supplies flash memory and low-powered processors for wireless devices such as cell phones. Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., is at www.intel.com. Jack McCarthy is a San Francisco correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Go to the Week's Top News Stories